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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Be Your Own Powerball; The Odds are Way Better

Before you rush out at the last minute to grab your
“winning” ticket for tonight’s billion dollar drawing, consider betting on
yourself for a change.

Did you know that your odds of winning the $1.5 Billion
Powerball are 1 in 292.2 million?What
if you invested in better odds?

Ever want to be an
Olympian?You could do it!If you follow the logic of everyone has a
chance, the odds of making it are about one in one half million.Staggeringly better odds than the elusive
Powerball.

Maybe you moonlight karaoke and local theater and are waiting for your big break?Well, if by break, you mean something really
big, the truth is that you have a better chance of being hit by a satellite
than by fame (www.cracked.com/blog/5-awful-things-nobody-tells-you-about-being-actor/

Dreaming about making
it in the NFL?The odds of high
school senior player who go on to be drafted by an NFL team, about nine in
10,000 (or 0.09 percent).That’s about
the chance you have an IQ above 150.By
the way, the average IQ of Ph.D. students is 130!
(www.norwichcsd.org/downloads/prosportsodds.doc)

Were you born to be
part of the WWE (wrestling !!!)?In
2011, WWE was getting around 2,000 wrestler applications a week, from 14 different
countries.About 5 were expected to
actually make the main WWE roster.
(www.wrestlingnews.net/how-do-you-get-in-the-wwe)

Or maybe, just maybe, you’re like me and waiting for your big
break to be discovered by Oprah and have a best selling memoir (okay…best
selling wannabe) and were born to write
about absolutely everything?

Apparently I’m not alone…more than 80 percent of Americans
would like to be an author.Google
estimates 130 million books have been published in human history (I’m in that
rank!)

The odds of any
author making it big are a long shot.Nielson
Bookscan reported in 2004 that of 1.2 million books tracked, only 25,000 –
barely more than 2 percent – sold more than 5,000 copies. (http://williamdietrich.com/the-writers-odds/)

Okay, now where was I going with all this?If you’re willing to dream big on a ticket
that spits out on a quick pick, why wouldn’t you at least entertain the thought
of going after other dreams…while with still daunting odds of succeeding, the odds are are
way better than discovering the meaning of life through a 1.5 billion dollar
ticket.

So, instead of thinking about what you’re going to do if you
win the lottery, consider what you will
actually do to make your real dreams come true!

And yes, I’ll probably grab a few tickets before the day is
over or jump in a pool at work…I’m not gonna be that one person that said it
could never happen!After all, I’m still
working on my next best selling novel J

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I've been a writer since I was a child, scrawling down sentence fragments and notes on scrap pieces of paper...imagining the future and how I might change the world. Over the years, my writings began to take shape more to maintain my own sanity than any strategic thought process. I kept journals and poetry for years. Imagine opening a time capsule twenty years later only to find relevant, thought provoking essays...once useless journals, now transformed into a new age of blogging and sharing. A box full of treasures to share and re-ignite my creative side of writing. This time capsule's day has come!